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Id: 35876
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: podlators

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: ntyni [...] iki.fi
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Bug Information
Severity: Normal
Broken in: 2.0.6
Fixed in: 2.1.0



Subject: pod2man loses =head2 starting ' or .
This is <http://bugs.debian.org/448204>, already reported in the perl core bug tracker as <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53910>. Sending here too for the sake of completeness, hope that's the right thing to do. The headings from the attached file aren't shown when the pod2man output is fed to groff. pod2man foo.pod | groff -man >/dev/null <standard input>:140: warning: `destroy'' not defined (probable missing space after `de') <standard input>:143: warning: `deb' not defined (probable missing space after `de') Please see the abovementioned bugs for a proposed patch by Kevin Ryde, the original submitter. -- Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
Subject: foo.pod
=head2 'destroy' method Some text. =head2 .deb file handling Some text.
CC: 448204 [...] bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #35876] pod2man loses =head2 starting ' or .
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:57:06 -0700
To: bug-podlators [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Russ Allbery <rra [...] stanford.edu>
"ntyni@iki.fi via RT" <bug-podlators@rt.cpan.org> writes: Show quoted text
> This is <http://bugs.debian.org/448204>, already reported in the perl > core bug tracker as > <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53910>. Sending here too > for the sake of completeness, hope that's the right thing to do.
Yes, please. I don't read either of those other bug streams. Show quoted text
> The headings from the attached file aren't shown when the pod2man output > is fed to groff. > > pod2man foo.pod | groff -man >/dev/null
The patch looks good to me. Will be fixed in the next version (which should be soon). -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
This should now be fixed in podlators 2.1.0.